Feeder for motor-vehicles.



Patented Dec. I7, l9 0l. W. J. &. 6. LANE. FEEDER FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

(Application filed Apr. 25, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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VILLIAM JAMES LANE AND GEORGE LANE, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NE\V YORK, ASS IGNORS TO THE LANE MOTOR VEHICLE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NElV JERSEY.

FEEDER FOR MOTOR VEHlCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 689,099, dated December 17, 1961.

Application filed April 25, 1901. Serial No. 57,497. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM JAMEsLANE and GEORGE LANE, citizens of the United States, residing at Poughkeepsie, county of Dutchess, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feeders for Motor-Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to motor-vehicles of IO the type designed to be operated by steam.

Our invention consists in the mechanism employed to pump heated feed-water from a feed-water tank to the interior of the boiler.

Our invention also consists in the arrange- '15 ment of parts whereby the products of combustion passing through the dues of the boiler and the condensed steam from the exhaust of the engine traversing the feed-Water tank are delivered into the atmosphere.

The objects of our invention are to improve and simplify the construction of motor-vehicles and provide an efficient means for pumping heated feed-water and for delivering the products of combustion and the exhauststeam from the vehicle.

The accompanying drawings will serve to illustrate our invention, in which Figure 1 is a bottom view, and Fig. 2 a side view, of the body of a motor-vehicle, showing the relation of the boiler, water-tank, engine, pump, fines, and interposed pipe connections, the Water-tank being shown in vertical section and the pump in partial section with the inclosing casing broken away.

In the drawings, 5 represents the body of a motor-vehicle, which may be of any suitable construction; 6, the boiler, preferably of the vertical-tube type; 7, the burner, of any type, located under the boiler; 8, the feed- 0 water tank; 9, the steam-engine; 10, the water-pump, having its piston 11 connected to the cross-head 12 of the engine-piston 13; 14, a pipe leading from bottom of feed-Water tank 8 to stand-pipe 15 of pump; 16, a pipe leading from stand-pipe of pump to boiler 6; 17 and 18, check-valves located in the pipes 14 and 16, respectively, on opposite sides of the stand-pipe 15; 19, an exhaust-pipe from englue to one side of feed-water tank; 20, an 5o outlet-pipe from the opposite side of feedwater tank and having its delivery-nozzle 21 in one of the exit-fines for the products of combustion passing the boiler.

Located over the boiler is a horizontal flue 22, which is connected to the rear of the flue 23, adapted todischarge at the back of the vehicle, and to the lateral flues 24, adapted to discharge in the transverse fiue 25, which is connected to the horizontally-disposed longitudinal fine 26. The products of combustion are discharged through these flues.

It will be observed by reference to the drawings that the piston 11 of the pump is smaller than its containing-cylinder and that the piston performs its office in elevating the feedwater by displacement and also that the check-valves 17 and 18 are located above the bottom of the pump-cylinder. This condition, so far as we are aware, appears to be essential, as we have found in practice that if these valves are located at the level of the bottom of the pump-cylinder the pump will not elevate highly-heated water. We do not wish to limit ourselves, however, to the exact position shown for the valves, as it is probable that they may be given another location without materially altering the capability of the pump as described.

27 is a live-steam pipe from boiler to engine.

28 is a removable plug through which water may be introduced into the feed-Water tank.

The operation of our device is as follows: Water from the feed-tank Sis fed through the pipe 14 to the stand-pipe 15, and thence to the cylinder of the pump. lVhen the pump is actuated by the action of the engine, the Waterin the cylinderis displaced by the pumppiston 11 and delivered upward through the stand-pipe 15 by pipe 16 to the interior of the boiler. The check-valve 17 openstoward the pump and the check-valve 18 from the pump. Live steam from the boiler is fed through the pipe 27 to the engine and. from the engine through the exhaust-pipe 19 to the interior of the feed-water tank. The steam introduced into the feed --Water tank is either wholly or partially condensed by the water therein and after traversing the tank later ally is delivered by the pipe 20 into the flue 26, creating a draft in such flue. The products of combustion when the vehicle is at rest are discharged into the horizontal flue 22, and thence outward to the atmosphere through the fine 23. When the vehicle is in motion, the products of combustion are discharged through the horizontal flue 22, thence through the lateral fines 2t to the transverse horizontal line 25, thence to the longitudinal horizontal flue 26 into the atmosphere.

Having thus described our invention, we.

claim--- 1. The combination of a feed-water tank, a steam-engine having its exhaust adapted to discharge into said tank, a steam-boiler, a pump, a stand-pipe connected to the lower end of the pump, a pipe connecting the standpipe to the water-tank, a check-valve in said pipe, a pipe connecting said stand-pipe to the boiler, and a check-valve in said pipe.

2. The combination of a feed-Water tank, an engine having its exhaust connected with the interior of said tank, a pump, interposed pipe system between the feed -water tank, pump and boiler, and check-valves in said pipe system located above the level of the bottom of the pump.

3. The combination of a feed-water tank, an engine having its exhaust connected with the interior of the tank, a pump having its piston connected to the cross-head of said engine, a boiler, interposed pipe connections between said tank and-boiler, check-valves in said pipe connections, and a branch pipe between said check-Valves leading from said pipe connections to the bottom of the pump.

4:. The combination of a feed-water tank,

an engine having its exhaust connected to the interior of the tank, a pump, a piston for said pump much smaller in diameter than the cylinder of the pump and said piston connected with the cross-head of the engine, a boiler, a stand-pipe leading from the bottom of the pump upward, check-valves on each side of said stand-pipe, and pipe connections from said check-valves respectively to the water-tank and boiler.

5. The combination of a feed-Water tank,- a steam-engine located at a lower plane than said tank, an exhaust-pipe leading from the engine to the interior of the tank, a pipe leading from the interior of the tank to the boiler, check-valves in said pipe, a pump, a pipe connecting the bottom of the pump with the pipe leading from the tank to the boiler and between the check-valves, a flue for the products of combustion from the boiler, and a pipe leading from the interior of the watertank and discharging into said fine.

(3. The combination with a feed-water tank into which exhaust-steam is discharged from an engine, a boiler, a flue through which the products of combustion from the boiler are discharged, located at a lower level than the boiler, and a pipe connected with the interior of the'water-tank and discharging into said flue.

, In testimony whereof we affix our signa tures in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM JAMES LANE. GEORGE LANE.

Witnesses:

J. M. JAMES, C. J. BROWER. 

